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Quote (psychophipps @ Sep. 15 2002,14:57) Quote If they're Solo's, they add a smaller backup handgun, if possible in the same line and caliber as the main weapon, so they can share their magazines. Umm...where did you get the idea that you can swap magazines between pistols? Why do you think that they went with the Baretta instead of the Ruger back when they did the trials even though the Ruger tested as a better weapon? Because it was more "universal" when it came to magazines so supplies wouldn't have to come from a single source.
Semi-auto magazines and speedloaders are NOT interchangable because then 1) all pistols would look alike and 2) the manufacturer couldn't count on spare magazine sales because you could get them from anyone.
Mark(psycho)Phipps( HAHAHA! )
Not to mention significant differences in gun design. Comapare Browning P-35 to Colt M1911 to Glock anything to a Makaraov. Even if they are all the same caliber the frame disegns, magazine catch, and even feed ramp are different to the point where you are gonna need a unique magazine for each model.
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Still gaming or still role-playing?
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I think he is initating Anime diaglogue...
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Moving in the open under fire is one of the hardest things to do. Generally, if the enemy is w/in hand grenade distance it is a rule of thumb for everyone to chuck grenades at them then bum-rush them. If they are at a distance you need to supress them somehow before you try to move.
For about the last 50 years, at every level from fire team to brigde, the American tactic has been...
Make contact,
maintain contact with the smallest element possible
back off, and annihalate them with fire support,
seize the objective and finish off what is left.
In the cases where that is not possible (TF Ranger for instance) things tend to be pretty messy.
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Well, since I know you get your news from "The John Stewart Show" I can see where you are coming from.
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Quote (malek77 @ Sep. 12 2002,18:12) ...and hot weather. Real hot weather. I'm sick of being cold and wet... Trade ya. 98 F and 90% humidity.
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Yes ma'am, you are correct. Walking upright into combat is a bad idea. It took a lot of dead Soviet grunts to learn 'em that lesson too.
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There is only one thing I want for X-mas. Well, I guess It's really TWO things I want...
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Quote (boneshaker @ Sep. 12 2002,10:16) Goteki figures
Cryonica Tanz V1
knee high socks
Betty Spaghetty dolls
"I AM THE ANTI-GOTH" T-shirt
assorted chocolates
stationary
hair clips/grips
Crayola Creations stuff [esp Cute, Dinky + Smelly triple pack]
assorted Digimon goodies
cute things
your appraisal
eyeliner
eyeshadow [lots of bright colours]
email nina_marie69@hotmail.com for more info & my address...
<3<3<3You'll get a lump of coal and like it young lady!
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Doesn't FN make one?
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Actually, I disagree but only to a point. I think it is naive to think that media of any form does not have an influence on the attitudes and behavior of people. In modern society people develop an idea of what society expects from them based on what they see in the media, as an example. T
o use an extreme case the two jackasses in Columbine based there method off of a scene in a film. That's not to say those two would not have acted out in some way, but their chosen method may have been the suicide pact (much more prevalent in the 50s, 60s and 70s) rather than the murder-suicide. Compare Jim Jones to the Waco incident. There was a certain amount of shooting in the Jim Jones case, but by comparison the Waco compound was more like an armory.
Why is it, that in the 1970s anyone with $150 could by an AR-15A1 at Wal-mart (I am NOT exagerrating) no questions asked, and do what they want with it, yet the use of firearms in crime has risen significantly in the last 20 years? And don't tell me firearms are just more readily available, they are just as (and more expensive) now than they were then.
I think there has been an influence. That is not to say RPGs or video games CAUSE people to behave that way, but I definatly think it influences their method of execution.
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Quote (case1dog @ Sep. 02 2002,23:33) It's like the Lewinsky testimony published on the web, might as well have been posted in alt.erotica. And this by Ken Starr, an anti-porn advocate. A) What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
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Quote (case1dog @ Sep. 09 2002,18:25) society dictates I used to know a comic / game store owner who used that saying a lot..
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Don't be silly. It's the combination for her luggage.
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Interesting. it could be a Europe thing. I did not game at all while I was there (too much good beer to waste time gaming) anyway, are women gamers more prevelant in Europe?
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Quote Has been ages since I read this one:
Chicks in RoleplayingI think this article is written tongue-in-cheek, but like most good humor is based on some fact.
The vast, vast, majority of WG (women gamers) I have known fall into either the:
"my boyfriend dragged me here, but he went to Le Mis' with me so I have no choice" category,
or the:
"Hey, these boyz are so desperate they will pay attention to even me" category.
Chrysalis (if she is in fact what she claims to be
) is an exception to the rule.I am NOT trying to insult anyone, but to leave physical beauty (regardless of individual preferences) out of the equation is simply being naive. I am referring to both men and women.
Pretty (or more accuratly, non-ugly) girls do not necessarily want to be hit on everywhere they go. Even by the George Cluny/Mel Gibson/Brad Pitt types. (Just an illustration folks) A girl in a bar drinking White Zin is probably trying to get laid, (or can't afford real wine), whereas a pretty girl who pokes her head into the game store next to her hair-sylist just out of curiosity is not looking for the 155 lbs, pimply, glasses wearing 19 year old behind the counter to hit on her.
And lets face it. Role-playing by definition requires social interaction, yet most of us (at least in our pre-teen / teen age years) had the social skills of a malaria infested mosquitoe.
Then there is the "Role" vs "Roll" playing debate (damn the Dragon Magazine article). D&D, CP2020 etc are role-playing GAMES and therefore combine elements of both. Whereas LARPs are not games, but role-playing events.
Girls seem to be more interested in role-playing than gaming. Thus the even more rare war-gaming chick. But that's for another web site.
Guys like the game part. Most guys want to play something they are not or could never be. That is why the Conan muscle guy on the cover next to chick in chainmail is not viewed my male gamers as any sort of sex object, but as they guy "I want to be" next to the girl "I want to be with".
The gaming / number part comes from wanting to be the best. Why play a 5'11", 175 lbs middle-class male, when you can pay Sir William the Bold, ruler of Lithunopia, conquerer of the Sylvan, Lord of All He Surveys? Gotta have BIG numbers to be that guy!
I am sure that most of us (we all seem to be veteran gamers) have been there done that, and maybe gaming has changed, but in the end I think GAMING will remain a "guy thing" for quite a while. Although women I hope will be welcome, and won't have to come mit taser / pepper-spray to keep Case#1Dog from touching them.
At least that's Murph's Fixed Opinion.
(By the way I do disagree with one point. Women tend to be more detail oriented than men, and are usually as good if not better than men at numbers, so it is interesting that they are less interested in the numbers part.)
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Quote (Bookwyrm @ Aug. 28 2002,20:31) Quote No, really... She´s not talking about men, but idiots... Or women, but decent roleplayers... If you replace man with munchkin a$$hole and woman with roleplayer, the article might sound alright... Which is pretty much how I approached it, probably why I didn't have the same problems...
BTW, a copy of the SCUM Manifesto is here
Question to the Guys:
How much do you want to bet that Valerie Solanas (SCUM author) is uglier than a three day dead pig?
Most female militants are basically still pissed off about the boyz who paid them no attention, fawned over the pretty blonde, and totally failed to notice the "inner beauty" of the ugly chick.
I'm not saying that to be mean.
There is the male equivilant. The "threatened by pretty girl with a spine and ideas of her own" guy, like a dude I knew who ran the local comic/game store and married a girl with no spine, or really any personality at all.
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An M-16A2 weighs in at about 2 lbs less than an M14. What do you mean by "light"?
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Quote (Mephostophilis @ Sep. 06 2002,05:42) I disagree. The randomness in damage could easily represent things such as the bullets hitting on an angle (less damage gets through), hitting between the rigid plates (more damage gets through). And as to your idea of weapons having a fixed penetration value, they do have to some extent due to the probability curve you get from throwing multiple dice, although the more powerful weapons tend to stick closer to this average due to the higher number of dice rolled. Excellent point Smithers!
Also, energy will decrease with range for KE munitions (in other words, bullets). So if damaged is fixed for bullets, it would have to be fixed at varying ranges.
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Actually, with their driving rolls, it will probably take care of itself, I need only provide the details!
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Quote (case1dog @ Sep. 01 2002,14:01) The surviving PC's, Joey Ramone, Clint Eastwood, Michael Corleone cowered in a heavily armored van, which was another critical success to armor. So yeah, shrapnel was ignored. I am well aware that this van(which constantly blairs the A-Team theme music) will soon be anti-tanked missilled or stolen despite my precautions of removing the battery/starter/spark plugs every night. The vanfromhell gets posted next...
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Quote Sorry, i'm used to having them described in the correct english, read: The head wound that sucked, instead of sucking head wound.
Mark(psycho)Phipps( HAHAHA! )I meant sucking head wound. See it's a take off of sucking chest-wound, which is a real thing. But there is humor involved here, as you cannot have an actual sucking head wound (unless you have lungs in your skull) but a head wound would suck.
It's a pun. Or irony. Or coincidence. Anyway, it's supposed to be FUNNY!
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Games about sitting around campfires singing "Spirit in the Sky" just wouldn't be the same now would they?
Heckler & Koch pro ^^
in Armament
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Hope you don't feel insulted now
Dreaming? A lot of those guys (and a few of THESE guys) own one or more of those things!